One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
tells the story of a free-spirited rogue who takes over the ward of a mental
hospital by a combination of chutzpah and ingenuity. The film is based
on Ken Kesey´s best-selling novel published in 1962. Using the
madhouse to symbolize the individual against the system, the story gets
its power from its unforgettable ensemble of characters and accretion of
details that reveal what life is about inside a mental institution. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest swept the top five Oscars in 1976, the first film to do so since It Happened One Night in 1934.